Yesterday evening a nail bomb ripped through a busy shopping street in a turkish working class district of Cologne, Germany. Shop windows and cars smashed. 22 injured. Officials and media quick to claim: "no racist attack, but gang war!" Anyone remember the London nail bombs in 1999?
Yesterday a nail bomb ripped through a turkish working class area of Cologne, injuring 22. The officials were quick to declare it was an result of gangland warfare among the turkish community. "It was not a terrorist or extremist attack", the Berlin interior ministry claimed. So a nail bomb on turkish immigrants is no terror? The media incorporated the bomb story promptly into the current hate campaign against muslim immigrants. "See how far we got?" There isn´t a day without a scare story about dangerous islamist preachers who should be expelled from the country, about to many mosques being constructed, possible bombing campaigns by islamists cells, about the threat of world wide islamofascism on the rise. Laws are tightened, civil rights are being undermined. Unfortuntely, some on the left join in the "islamofascism" slander, claiming "antisemitism is rising among muslim", claiming all palestinians and muslim are nazis, alleging links to German nazism. This bellicist left also claims there is a "united front of nazis, islamists, altermondialist and the anti-war movement". In turn, this slander is echoed by some media and pro-war politicians.
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More evidence of a Euro-wide rising tide of Islamophobia!!
10.06.2004 12:10
This just goes to show how the "War on Terror" can be manipulated to fan the flames of this Islamophobia. I think Islamophobia is becoming a serious problem throughout Europe right now, in a similar way the anti-semmitism was in the ersly 30s. I was in the cntre of Milan last week and was basically shocked by another expression of this hate. One of the neo-Fascist groups in Italy, la Liga Nord, were holding a rally, right in Piazza del Duomo under the slogan: "Stop Islam" (written in English for some reason??)!! This is a growing problem in Europe I think and unless we get our act together, rather than ranting on about how Muslims are backward etc, it won't be long before this kind of shit happens in the UK. Another European tragedy was what happened in France I think -with the banning of the Hijab, with support from everyone (including sections of the left!!). I think there are echoes of this in this report referring to the "bellicist left" (whoever they are??). WE MUST ACT NOW TO STOP THIS RISING TIDE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA!! Sometime between now and when the European right introduce their "final solutions" for the Muslims would be good!! Don't let the UK follow the same tragic route of Germany or France!!
Interesting quote:
"Unfortuntely, some on the left join in the "islamofascism" slander, claiming "antisemitism is rising among muslim", claiming all palestinians and muslim are nazis, alleging links to German nazism. This bellicist left also claims there is a "united front of nazis, islamists, altermondialist and the anti-war movement". In turn, this slander is echoed by some media and pro-war politicians."
Hmmm now this bit sounds very familiar?? Is Nick Cohen writing articles for German newspapers I wonder??
Andy S
very strange
10.06.2004 12:16
I coudn't believe my ears...
here are two article of interest concerning these atrocities
the mainstream media asserted at every opportunity that Copeland was working alone
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The prosecution also alleges that Copeland bombed Brixton and Brick Lane - home respectively to large numbers of black and Asian people - in an attempt to ignite a race war in Britain. The attack on the Admiral Duncan pub was "personal", it has said.
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this has never been mentioned in relation to the Copeland bombings
much too contentious
remember this?
Main witness in German neo-Nazi party trial exposed as secret service agent
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"the actual circumstances of the case are far more important than the procedural matters and so-called sloppiness in the interior ministry. They throw a sharp light on the long-standing, close links between sections of the state apparatus and the neo-fascist NPD and its racist supporters. The unprofessional handling of secret service information is a result of the fact that the connection between the neo-fascists and the secret service was long known in government circles and was regarded as completely normal.
Concretely, it concerns 66-year-old Wolfgang Frenz, who is a founder member of the NPD and sits on its national executive committee. According to his own admission, “from the first day” he played a key role in the NPD’s regional organisation in North Rhine-Westphalia and worked intensively on the party’s publications Deutsche Zukunft-Laenderspiegel NRW and Deutsche Stimme.
In a recent television interview, Frenz admitted he had been an informant and contact of the secret service for 36 years. During regular meetings with his secret service handlers, however, he claims he passed on only “publicly accessible information” and nothing internal. Frenz told reporters said he was able to square this collaboration with his conscience “since I did not reveal any secrets”.
Captain Wardrobe